Pepper's' At 50: Why The Beatles' Masterpiece Can't Be Replicated And also when you stepped up to a microphone, you were conscious of all that background of, 'I'm Beatle Paul, and I'm going to do a Beatle Paul song.' So we can't get too far out because people just go, 'What the hell's going on? They've gone mad!' So you had certain standards for Beatles records you were always trying to advance those standards, but there were limits that you felt. And when you made a record, you knew you were making a Beatles record, and so you imposed certain parameters on it. "We'd been The Beatles for quite a while. On why they chose to go with a persona on Sgt. And we couldn't because it was just a million seagulls screaming." It was like, OK, it would be quite nice to be able to hear the song we're playing. "Later then, it got a bit worrying because now the first sort of flush of the excitement had been going for quite a few years and we were maturing and we were sort of out of that phase. On how the screaming of Beatlemania got old It really was just we young guys trying to get laid, as Americans would say." It was the fulfillment of all our dreams. It was kind of the opposite for us, so I suppose, as we got more and more popular and the girls started screaming, to tell you the truth, we just enjoyed it. We didn't mind, as long as we were attractive, because as kids, we were apparently not very attractive and we certainly weren't the big kind of quarterback who attracted all the girls in town. So as we got fans, that became our motivation, which was, we were trying to be attractive in any way you like - visually, physically, sexually. We just wanted to have a girlfriend and basically do as much as we could, was the idea. On the Beatles going from normal teenage boys to being the most desired men on the planet
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